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- Comment on ‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Gets Day-And-Date Dub Launch As Crunchyroll Leans Into Global Simulcasts - Cartoon Brew (Jamie Lang) 1 week ago:
Supposedly the whole anime has been done for a while now, so hopefully that means the same-day dub wasn’t actually a rush job.
- Comment on Chainsaw Man' by Tatsuki Fujimoto has Officially Ended Today with Chapter 232 1 week ago:
It might not be the happiest ending but compared with every other Fujimoto thing I’ve read it’s downright joyful.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
Except… Why has nobody mentioned Pretty Cure!? It should be the obvious choice!
Good question! I briefly considered it, but I haven’t seen it so I have no idea whether an adult would enjoy it too. Would you say it appeals to both age groups? It’s honestly tough since the span between “6-year old child” and “6-year old child’s parent” is so wide!
- Comment on Chainsaw Man' by Tatsuki Fujimoto has Officially Ended Today with Chapter 232 1 week ago:
Has Fujimoto ever written a happy ending before? This honestly surprised me.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
If a kid can watch and enjoy it
That’s the problem, I don’t think a 6-year-old child would enjoy it. There’s a difference between not getting all the jokes and not even getting half of them.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
Agreed. I think people are overestimating the maturity level of the average 6-year-old.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
I really think most of the jokes here will fly over a 6-year-old child’s head. It may not have anything inappropriate in it, but the target audience is still adults.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
In the manga they straight-up got engaged. He gave her a ring and everything. In the anime the relationship was downplayed a bit, but it was still there. In the English dub of the anime they rewrote it so the relationship was non-existent and if she was blushing while talking to him it would be because she forgot her homework or something, rather than romantic reasons.
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
I thought about Nichijou, but I’m not certain a 6-year-old would be able to understand some of the jokes.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 13] 1 week ago:
Just the first episode? Remember that fight with the shark?
- Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime 1 week ago:
Cardcaptor Sakura might be good. Note that there’s a really inappropriate relationship between a student and teacher but they removed that relationship when they made the English dub so I’m guessing that’s the version you’d want to go with here. I imagine you’d want something with a dub anyways for someone that age.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 13] 1 week ago:
As for WHA, it’s being made by the studio that made Zom 100, so there’s a lot of uncertainty about whether they can actually pull it off
Have you seen Zom 100? It looked incredible. As far as I can tell the only real complaint people have is that there was a big delay while the made the last few episodes of the season. I’ll take “late but good” any day though if that’s what needs to happen to bring WHA to my TV.
- Comment on "Space Brothers" Manga to End in 3 Chapters, Concluding a 19-Year Run; Final Volume 46 Release Date Announced 1 week ago:
I’ve heard lots of good things about this one; I might pick it up if I hear it ends well.
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 13] 1 week ago:
probably AOTY. I know it’s very early to say that
Careful! Witch Hat Atelier and Daemons of the Shadow Realm are coming right up! Those are very different shows though, and Journal With Witch is very good, so I think it’ll come down to personal preference.
- Comment on [Episode] Medalist Season 2 • Medalist 2nd Season - Episode 9 discussion 1 week ago:
No doubt!
- Comment on Summer Anime Season Wrap-up and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 13] 1 week ago:
This season has been insane. Things I’m watching, in rough order of preference:
- Golden Kamuy Final Season - Absolutely blowing my socks off. I think Lt. Tsurumi might be my favorite villain in all of anime. He’s absolutely crazy, and so are most of his subordinates and for that matter most of the characters in this show. I wish it had a higher animation budget, but the fights are so well choreographed they’re enjoyable anyways. Sorry JJBA, there’s a new homoerotic show about buff guys killing each other in town.
- Journal with Witch - I still haven’t watched the latest two episodes because life has been happening, but this was the biggest surprise for me this season. Very well-written and emotional.
- You and I Are Polar Opposites - Very cute and fluffy. A masterful adaptation.
- Medalist - A great story with a pretty good adaptation. I wish I could say it’s perfect but something about the adaptation doesn’t feel quite right. Still a great show though, which I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to others.
- Frieren - You know it’s a crazy season when this show is this far down the list. It’s good, but it kinda feels like it said what it wanted to say in the first half of season 1 and the mangaka has just kinda been flying by the seat of their pants since then. The weak worldbuilding makes me yearn instead for Witch Hat Atelier, which will be airing next season.
- Jujutsu Kaisen - Some of the coolest fights you’ll see in an anime, but it doesn’t have much beyond that.
- Oshi No Ko - It’s fine, but I just don’t think the author is good at writing serious drama and that’s starting to show now that we’ve reached the serious drama part of the story. TBH I’m quite behind on this one, and unfortunately having read the manga isn’t making me feel more like catching up.
- Comment on [Episode] STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure • JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Steel Ball Run - Episode 1 discussion 1 week ago:
Not sure what the pros are for the way they released Stone Ocean.
- Comment on [Episode] Medalist Season 2 • Medalist 2nd Season - Episode 9 discussion 1 week ago:
Another solid episode, though once again I kinda feel like the manga did it better. All the same I find myself disappointed that we’ll have to wait and then go to movie theaters if we want more. Or read the manga. The manga is really good.
- Comment on In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5... 2 weeks ago:
I mean, lots of people were and still are annoyed by frame gen too - especially with the deceptive way nvidia uses it in their marketing (claiming a 5070 will be as fast as a 4090 when it actually just makes more fake frames).
- Comment on In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5... 2 weeks ago:
Referring to the slop filter as visual enhancement is being very generous. The AI doesn’t know shit about why things look the way they look. Can’t wait to play Deep Rock Galactic but with the lighting all fucked up, despite that being an extremely important game mechanic that the AI doesn’t know anything about.
- Comment on In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5... 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely but it depends on what kind of DLSS we’re talking about, since nvidia uses the term to talk about multiple very different technologies. DLSS framegen can make things look smoother but increases latency and introduces visual artifacts. I would never turn it on for something like a first-person shooter, but I could maybe see myself using it in a game like Civ VII where a few extra milliseconds of latency isn’t a big deal.
The really important one though is DLSS upscaling. Back in the day if you ran a game at lower resolution (usually for performance reasons) and upscaled it it would look like shit. DLSS upscaling lets you do that and have it look almost as good as rendering it natively, as long as you don’t push it too far. It didn’t work super well when it was first released, but these days it looks great and can really improve performance.
The benefits of DLSS yassification are questionable.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re indeed being a little too cynical here. Enshittification happens because corps are trying to squeeze every cent they can out of everyone they interact with. It’s not like they’re going out of their way to make things worse; that’s just an incidental thing that happens sometimes when a guy with an MBA sees a cost he thinks can be cut. In this case I think the target was a relatively expensive development team; any changes to how much work is put into translation and localization would be a separate matter.
Also keep in mind that they have some terrifying rivals - Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+. Each of these rivals has solid offerings in the anime world, and each of them has a deep warchest they could pull from if they wanted to fight Crunchyroll for exclusives. Up 'til now one of the biggest reasons to have a Crunchyroll account over those others has been (believe it or not) the quality of the subtitles. For all of Crunchyroll’s mistakes, those others do it far worse. If Crunchyroll actually dropped their subtitle quality and got rid of features like typesetting I think they’d lose a lot of customers. Oh, and I guess HiDive also exists. They’ll need to make some serious upgrades such as “a video player that plays videos consistently” or “a next episode button that actually plays the next episode” before they can threaten Crunchyroll though.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player 2 weeks ago:
My guess is they want to stop maintaining their own custom video player that supports all sorts of features for soft captions.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player 2 weeks ago:
and allow for more creativity, like strategic placement, multiple colors or fonts, deliberate variation in font size/kerning etc…
Crunchyroll’s subtitle display system was actually really advanced and could do all this stuff anyways, making the move feel even stranger. My guess is they wanted to stop maintaining their own video player without dropping those capabilities.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player 2 weeks ago:
It’s not ideal, but I’d agree it’s a lot better than nothing.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player 2 weeks ago:
because I’m currently translating anime
How does this work if you don’t speak Japanese? MTL? How can you be sure you’re doing a remotely decent job of it?
- Comment on Crunchyroll Gets Anime Streaming Rival "Amasian TV" This Week With 25+ Hours of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Free 2 weeks ago:
Terrible title but good to know this service exists.
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2026, Week 12] 2 weeks ago:
I had no idea that was from the mangaka of You and I Are Polar Opposites
Worth noting that they made The Ramparts of Ice before they made You and I Are Polar Opposites. It might not be as good since they were less experienced at the time. Or maybe it will be. I have no idea; I haven’t read it.
- Comment on Spring Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2026, Week 12] 2 weeks ago:
Definitely watching:
- Witch Hat Atelier - Hot take, this is actually a way better fantasy manga than Frieren. Might be a somewhat less hot take once they get around to animating later seasons of Frieren. It has actual thought and effort put into its worldbuilding, which I think is essential for any fantasy story.
- Daemons of the Shadow Realm - I’ve read the first 10 volumes of the manga, and so far I’m actually liking it a little more than Fullmetal Alchemist - and I loved Fullmetal Alchemist.
Probably watching:
- The Ramparts of Ice - My wife and I have been enjoying You and I Are Polar Opposites this season, so we’ll definitely be taking a look at a new thing written by the same mangaka.
- Akane-banashi - The manga has been fun, so it’s a matter of whether the anime adaptation is good enough to elevate the experience beyond what the manga already delivers. I’m very curious to see how they portray the rakugo performances.
- Re:ZERO Season 4 - I liked Re:ZERO seasons 1 & 2 quite a lot, but by the time season 3 came around I couldn’t remember half of what happened. Whether I watch this basically depends on whether I can scrounge up the time to watch the first 3 seasons first somehow, which is gonna be tough since I have a lot going on right now both in life and in terms of other anime I want to watch and manga I want to read.
- Comment on An article on HiAnime's death and anime piracy in general, from a former industry insider 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really sure that argument works here. Sure, Crunchyroll has its problems. I could list several things I’d like to see them change. But are the common piracy sites out there any better? I loaded up the first episode of Journal With Witch (arguably Crunchyroll’s best show from this season) on both Crunchyroll and on one of the bigger remaining piracy sites. The experience was pretty close to identical. Even the subtitles were word-for-word the same, since those were just ripped from Crunchyroll anyways. You might be able to get better subtitles if you looked for a torrent, but if the numbers in this article are accurate over 95% of anime pirates are streaming directly from sites like the one I visited rather than torrenting. I believe those numbers too. It’s not like the torrent numbers are in any way invisible or difficult to measure.
I’m not even saying that we shouldn’t pirate. I’m saying that we should be honest with ourselves about why we pirate, and consider if there might be other ways we could give back to the anime industry. It’s super cool that Studio Trigger has a patreon. I wish more studios would do that.
As an aside, if you want to talk about bad service I think the worst culprit here is the blu-ray. It’s actually absurd that if I shell out for a blu-ray there’s no practical way to play the thing on my laptop, phone, or tablet because they’ve gone out of their way to pay for DRM to make it harder for me to do that.